If everything goes as planned, the Maharashtra Forest Department in the next couple of days will radio-collar female leopard C33 and release it back into the wild. C33, aged around two years, was the first to get trapped in the cage set up to capture the problem leopard at Aarey Milk Colony.

"Senior scientist Bilal Habib from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) will be providing the radio collar and the team of Dr Vidya Athreya from Wildlife Conservation Society-India, which had already radio-collared two leopards in Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), will be monitoring leopard C33 post collaring," said Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF)-Wildlife Sunil Limaye.